I’ve been watching the forums for several months looking for clues as to how people sync highrise with Apple Address Book and iPhones. I know about the greatascent attempt which appears to have died on the vine.

It seems that with all the people using iPhones on these forums I must be missing something really fundamental.

Here is the challenge of our studio:

Currently, we have a shared apple address book synced via .mac. This address book jumbles together our studio contacts and our personal contacts. Not a big deal when there were only a couple of us but now that we are growing this is not ideal and we have to deal with it. The attractive feature of highrise is the use of permissions to set who can view which contacts.

How do other people handle sharing important contacts with co-workers while not sharing their entire address book?

Can the permissions be used for this? Or is this the wrong approach?

Are people maintaining two systems? I have only one lap-top that I use for both work and personal. Do people set up multiple users (on macs) so that the worlds don’t collide? My work user could then sync with work and my home user would be separate. But then they would both be trying to sync with my iPhone.

I feel certain that with this many smart people using Highrise, this issue has already been solved by someone :)